Railway car wall



G. G. GILPIN RAILWAY CAR WALL Filed Deo. '7, 1925 OODOOODOOO OOOQOQQOOBUOOOODOUO 0 l I l l l l 1 I I I I Patented May 29, i928. UNETL S GARTH TES istitu,

'PATENT @Fece G GILPIN, oFRIvnnsIDn, ILLINOIS, AssIGNon TO'IINION'iVIEIAL ritonuc'rs' COMPANY, or CI-IICAGO, '.ILLINOIS, Ay CORPORATION or DELAWARE. j

RAILWAY CAR WAIQI..

Application ined December My invention relates to the construction of railway cars and more particularly to metal vend structures' orI walls for railway cars made of One'or more` metallic plates o'r panels formed with integral reinforcing,

.stiening and bracingembos-sments orrorrugations However, this device maybe incorporated in the construction of car side lwalls, floors, roofs or doors used in connec- 1o tion with yrailway cars ofvvarious types.v

Itis well known that the .end walls of raili'vay box cars are more likely to be broken or otherwise injured than the side walls. This is due to the inertia thrusts and presi5 sures 'caused by the shifting of the cargoes when the .train starts or stops.' These thrusts may be local, tending to distort the end in some particular spot, as, for example, when a piece of piping or lumber shifts lengthwise imparting a blow against the end wall of the car; "orthere may be a general tendency to break out the end wall a whole or tear it away from the framing. For the purpose, therefore, of greater strength and durability, car ends have been constructed of metal plates cOrrugate-d or formed with rib-s to impart lthe desired strength, rigidity and resiliency.y I

One of the principal Objects of my invention is to provide a corrugated metallic end structure for railway cars in which the corrugations lhave a configuration and arrangement thatV impart to the structure a j maximum capacity for resisting cargo thrusts, both local and general, 4static or quiescent, and with sufficient resiliency to I prevent permanent distortion cue to the thrusts of the loads, with a minimum weight of metal. lt is important that structures of this sort should be as light is possible, consistent with strength and durability, both forreasons of economy in manufacturing cost and also to keep the weight of the car ata minimum.r f

The retaining walls of railway cars are lined to retain the cargo within the car, because a riveted joint between twoflat vsteel surfaces will not retain such fine lading as grain, sand, etc. Steel frame (and even wooden) cars are lined with wood which absorbs moisture and retards sweating. If grain was allowed to Contact with a lsteel wall the consequent condensation of the moisture in the atmosphere would cause mildew, and in such ladings as cement and 7 y199.55. 'Seriana 73,834.

flour (even though sacked) such moisture would cause lconsiderable damage. "A wooden--liningv between the 4steel lwall and the'lading' practically eliminates such condensation. yAc wooden lining'also furnishes excellent vmeansv for blockingbulky and package lad--`rk ing in place. 7

Any lining necessarily increases the thickness ofl the wall;vr and in an end wall this means that the inside length of the car is reduced or the trainlength of thecar vis increased, either of which is objectionable. lt is desirable, therefore, to provide `as thin a llining las] possibleV consistent lwith require- `ments andk to support 'the lining by means which occupy thef minimum possiblev :hori

zontal sp`ace.- c.

vWhile 'I have shown the corrugations-poj sitionedv horizontally, this is immaterial to thevessential features of the inventionl In' the preferred fo1m,the corrugations termi# nate within the opposite edges of the plate.' i

The wall may bemade of one ormoreplates as desired. i

In the drawings: l Fig. l is an end elevationof a railway box car with mydevice applied thereon.

y Fig. 2 isk aysectionl on line 2;-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows one of the embossed plates. Fig. 4' is a sidevi'ew of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 3.` Fig. 6 is a section on line 6 6 of Figp.

Fig. 7 is a section on' line 7-7'of Fig. 3.7 i.

Fig. 8 shows another form of embossment.

Fig. 9 is aside view of Fig. 8.

y In the form illustrated, the metallic plates extend from side to side of the car and are attached thereto and yto the end. sill and en d plate in any convenient manner and are secured`together along` horizontal lines, thus forming' the endwall of the car.

metallic plates secured together and'isrein- The metallic wall "s made of'one or more forced by'a plurality of primary embossments or corrugations formed integrally therein which span the distance betweeny the opposite sidewalls of the car rand which are equal to their width adjacent themiddlcof the car and for a short distance on either` si-de thereof. The embossments.mergev intol icc i vof equal depthand spaced apart distances each other to form a sinuous conliguration to obtain resiliency. l Some of these primary embossments (l) are splitto form a plurality of narrower Vand Y lic; plate sothat they-all--protrude from the. 'saine side oi thei'pla-te l(as shown i-n Fig. ,5) f

apply.

shallow'er.equzilniitlth and equal depth 'secondary en'ibossinents 2 which are spaced apart distances equal to their Width. These `priinary''vieinbossinents' in'ay 'be 'splitfso as yto form a plurality of" secondary"enibossments 2 at their extremities, as shown in Fig. 3, or they may be split so that thesecondaiy einbossnients 3 will be adjacent their middle portion, as shown in Fig. 8. Other priniary eniboss-n'entsv(4) are intact and are preferably of constant depth and constant width for theinajor portion of theirllengtrh soI as `to provide a place for an attaching -piecei a wooden lining and are `'shown provided as the top fand bottomof `eac-h plate.' The attaching piece 5 is fitted into and secured -to this feinbossrnent L which is y yp'rei'ierasbly made straightso vthat the v-nail- .ing strip '5 will he simple `toanake and to The lining boards- 6 arepositioned perpendicularly to the attachingi piecesan Anailed-orotherwise secured thereto.

- The einbossnien-ts'are pressed inthe meta-lincluding the secondary embossnients (as shown inFlg. 6) -and the attachingpieces are lthe same -depth as vthe-'einbossnient into which' they are f secured. Y Thesetwo features perrnitthe lining tftogbear againstthecat caching piece-' and upnnilthe platebtween the primary embossinents (at '97)l and between the secondary embossrnents (at 8). A

veryE thin* liningwill'fthen ineetfall'service. -requireine'nts 'because it is only 'required to support loads over very short spans.

I claini' v l l. A metallic plate Wall for a railway car having a. plurality of equal length emboss- Amerits formed thereinl terminating within having `a pluralityv of equal length ernbossments formed thereinLterm-inating AWithin.

the, plate adjacent itsopposite edges,.some .of said ernbossinents toward their ends and split to forniisha-llower and narrower embossrnents, iother .of said' einbossments being ,of constant .width and constant depth for the inajorportion `of their length, and nailing strips .of1constant width .and constant depth v:secured ernbossrne'nts.

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